Improvement in the ornamentation of show-cards



L. 0.. GOODA LE. flrnamen'tati ofi of Show-Cards.

NO. M52912. Patented May 4,1875.

WITN E SSE S. INVENTOR.

M1 l I I V j, 6 1 Ma THEGRAPHIG CO PHOTO UT" N Y NITED STATES LEVI G. GOODALE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,912, dated May 4, 1875; application filed March 13, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEVI O. GOODALE, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Ornamentation of Metal; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of a sign prepared in accordance with my improved method, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same upon line 00 00 of Fig. 1.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The object of my invention is to render practicable the production or painted or enameled sheet-metal signs or show-cards, having their edges formed in imitation of frames; to which end it consists in the process employed, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

I take a sheet of thin metal, having the necessary size, and paint, print, or enamel upon the central portion A of its surface the desired lettering, and surround the same with the resemblance of a frame, B, after which said plate is placed between suitable dies, and its edges struck up to the form of the frame represented.

By this process the struck-up portions of the plate are as easily ornamented as its plane surface, and may be made to represent any kind of wood or other material desired, and its different elevations and faces may begiyen such shades as are best suited to the samel Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim as new The hereinbefore-described process for forming signs, show-cards, &c., by first enameling, printing, or painting upon the surface of sheet metal the desired lettering, surrounded by the representation of a frame, and then striking up the portion of said plate covered by the latter: so as to cause its outer surface to con form to the shape of the frame represented, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of March, 1875.

LEVI G. GOODALE.

Witnesses: E. GILLIGAN, WM. A. ARMSTRONG. 

